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  • The Nature of the Gods by Cicero, translated by Horace C. P. McGregor
    • 5/5 Stars
  • A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature by David Lyle Jeffrey
    • 5/5 Stars

    This is a large and valuable reference work for general readers, students, and scholars. The work contains several hundred articles that explain biblical themes, allusions, names and quotations and describe their appearance in English literature.

  • Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred by Philip Bess
    • 5/5 Stars

    "The city comes into existence . . . for the sake of the good life." So wrote Aristotle nearly 2,400 years ago, articulating an idea that prevailed throughout most of Western culture and the world until the environmental consequences of…

  • J. R. R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-Earth by Bradley J. Birzer
    • 5/5 Stars

    Peter Jackson’s film version of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the accompanying proliferation of Rings-related paraphernalia, has once again brought the work of J. R. R. Tolkien to a popular audience. There are, however, few full and accessible…

  • God and Man at Yale by William F Buckley
    • 5/5 Stars

    In 1951, a twenty-five-year old Yale graduate published his first book, which exposed the extraordinarily irresponsible educational attitude that prevailed at his alma mater. This book rocked the academic world and catapulted its young author, William F. Buckley Jr., into…

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Course level: 600 or above
  • Church, State, and American Democracy
    by David Franks
    "The first truth to which the American Proposition makes appeal is stated in…the Declaration of Independence. It is a truth that lies beyond politics; it imparts to politics a fundamental human meaning. I mean the sovereignty of God over nations…
Course level: 100
  • Introduction to Politics
    by David C. Innes
    Course Description: This course addresses fundamental questions about the nature of politics, questions about religion and politics, the individual and the community, liberty and tyranny, and does so through a selection of great political literature, essays, films and theological classics. It…
Course level: Unknown
  • Puritans and Planters: The American Colonial Experience
    by Chris Esh
    Course Description: This seminar-style course will focus on the cultural, religious, and intellectual sources of American identity in its colonial history. It develops in detail the foundations of this identity in the Puritan, Planter, Quaker, African, and Backcountry migrations to British…
  • Survey of Western Civilization II
    by Preston Jones
    I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain…
Course level: 300
  • Religion in America
    by Thomas Kidd
    Course Description: A study of the variety and persistence of American religious beliefs and practices from the meeting of European and Native American peoples in the 16th century to the turn of the 21st century.   Required Materials: Harry Stout…

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